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Re: [PATCH] PCI: Relax function 0 VPD test and relocate

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  Re: [PATCH] PCI: Relax function 0 VPD test and relocate "Rustad, Mark D" <mark.d.rustad@intel.com> - 2015-09-23 21:20 +0200

#1231666 — Re: [PATCH] PCI: Relax function 0 VPD test and relocate

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> On Sep 15, 2015, at 9:24 PM, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> When we quirk a device with PCI_DEV_FLAGS_VPD_REF_F0 we're expecting
> to find a device where all the functions are identical.  If we don't
> find that, we don't make VPD accessible through pci_vpd_ops.  That
> means that if we quirk devices we shouldn't, we filter them out by
> hiding VPD entirely rather than allowing default access.  Instead, we
> can flip this around to only quirk devices that match a slightly more
> rigorous test in the quirk, allowing regular access for anything else.
> 
> Tests for the multifunction flag are removed since a) function 0 and
> the function under test are clearly a multifunction device if we're
> scanning a non-zero function in the same slot and b) at this point the
> flag is only set in the device under test if the multifunction bit is
> set in the PCI HEADER, which is a point of interpretation for the PCI
> spec.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> This is potentially another stable candiate since we're continuing to
> iterate on 932c435caba8, but since we don't actually know of a device
> where VPD is blocked (we don't think my Skylake example actually
> supports VPD), I'm not including it.  I would support it if requested
> though.

This looks good to me. I can't really test the cases it addresses, but it seems reasonable.
Acked-by: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@intel.com>

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Mark Rustad, Networking Division, Intel Corporation

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